Ethiopia Puts Spotlight On Women's Right to Land
Just another example of why income inequality and global poverty can never be fully addressed until all women have equal rights!
AllAfrica
September 25, 2014
Ethiopia Puts Spotlight On Women's Right to Land
The Governments of Ethiopia and Finland, together with UN Women, organized a High-Level Ministerial Meeting on "Women's Right to Land - the Development Impact" in New York on Tuesday.
The meeting aimed to analyze and discuss the benefits of more equal land access and tenure and what further steps should be taken to ensure women's equal rights in law and in practice.
Ethiopia's Foreign Minister, Dr. Tedros Adhanom, emphasized that the role of women in fully realizing the Millennium Development Goals was important and that their expected active participation in the implementation of the future development goals in the context of the post 2015 agenda was critical...
...He noted that Article 16 of the Convention on Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) called upon state parties to take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in all matters relating to marriage and family relations, including ownership and disposition of property....
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